My Parlee is far and away the best bike I have ever ridden. It is as comfortable as the Colnago Dream HP, but is light and nimble. It sprints better than any bike I have ever ridden. All the reviews you read online are spot-on. This is the best bike money can buy.

Some pics of my Parlee. Scratched up the frame last year in a sprint (no carbon damage thankfully) and so I stripped the frame down and redid the decals and paint. Most I bought from Paree directly. The rest I desiged in Photoshop and had custom cut. Enjoy! Current weight with the HED 50/90 wheelset=6860grams (15.12lb). With Lightweight Gen III Standards weight will be 6059grams (13.36lb). Very light considering that all components/parts are race ready and tested. Many of the components have thousands of miles on them. No foo-foo-for-show-only parts.

NEW PICTURES/NEW PAINT JOB ADDED 7/8/08

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I hate to tell you, but I absolutly dislike your design, I think this 'ruins' the entire looks of the bike. I think there are way to much 'signs' on the bike and believe it's a 'bit of everyting but nothing together'. A complete cristmas tree but without the lights. The bike itsef is great but the colours and painting doesn't make me happy.

In the end I believe this is a great bike with great components but the combination doens't do it for me. but no matter what it's not my bike and it doesn't matter what I think of the bike. enjoy the ride and many same km's.

edit: I want to welcome you over here, hopefully you will have a good experience joining this forum. no way I'm willing ruin your day, it's just my opinion, again welcome over here, sorry for my kind of 'rough' welcom

Oooooh! Christmas lights! I didn't think of that. Anyone have any suggestions on some ultralight ones worthy of weight weenies??? Maybe LED's with carbonfiber housings???

No hard feelings.... Really. There are pleanty of bikes out there that I don't like at all. I usually keep those comments to myself unless, of course, someone is doing something that would cause problems. ie Using a Shimano 10 cassette with a Campy 10 drivetrain or a short cage derailleur with a 13-29 cassette.

My bike is not posted to make anyone happy. I know the wheels are a bit much, but they look great in a pace line at 30mph. Parlee and HED have helped me quite a bit over the last couple of years and so I have no problem doing a little free advertising on the bike.

Opinions are like asses. All of us have one. Some are nice and some just stink.

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All Parlee bikes require a clamp-on front derailleur. Mine is a Parlee carbon clamp which weighs 7 grams. The complete build list is at my website. Just click the 'www' under any of my posts then go to 'road bike'. It doesn't show the weight of each part, but you can easily look up most all of the parts online. The Fork is an Easton EC90SL Straight Blade. I have had that fork for about 4 years. Approximately 20000 miles (32000km) on it. It is 100% full carbon with carbon dropouts. I absolutely love it. It is a perfect match to the Z3. So much so that starting in 2008 Parlee specs the fork (I don't know if it is the standard or straight blade model) on the Z1 and Z3 custom builds. Very light at under 300 grams. It has been several of my bikes.

The lower rear pulley wheel is 15t. From Fibre-Lyte. At first I had a problem with the chain jumping off, even though the Fibre-Lyte cage had a safety tab. I fabricated a new tab and haven't had any problems since. My son's bike has the same setup.

I had Fibre-Lyte full carbon chainrings on a previous bike, but the teeth wore out very quickly and chipped away little by little every time I shifted. After that I switched to a Carbon-Ti chainring (Carbon base with Ti teeth). That was a nice setup. I have since switched to campagnolo compact and no one makes carbon chainrings for them. The chainring shown is standard Campy Record chainring with a carbon fairing. The fairing is a (god forbid!!!) very heavy 3 grams. Looks nice.

frikinspit - well done and I like the fact that you have gone a bit different on some of the parts. It is nice to see someone else take on what is cool. I tend to do things a bit different so I can appreciate your build for not following the norm.

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